Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
Interpretation
Feelings of loneliness can lead to deeper connections with others who share similar experiences.
This quote by Ze Frank suggests that the sense of isolation we experience in certain moments can actually serve as a bridge to connect us with others. When we recognize that our feelings of loneliness are common and shared, it can foster empathy and understanding, allowing us to connect more authentically with those who have faced similar struggles. The paradox here is that what isolates us can also unite us.
In practice
Using this quote during a speech about mental health awareness can highlight the importance of sharing our struggles.
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
Your luck is how you treat people.
we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.
Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
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